My friends and family had an event to help me with the costs of living on a disability income and the future cost of insurance. Towards the end of the year, I have to move to Medicare. I will have a large out of pocket expense and I already struggle with just paying my monthly…

NO MORE DAGGERS IN MY THIGHS!!! I’m really excited about this albeit maybe somewhat misguided…unfortunately no more daggers means a new chemo as the Ibrance/Faslodex combo didn’t do a damn thing to stabilize this cancer. For 3 months I was on the combination therapy of an oral chemo called Ibrance and monthly shots called Flasodex….

Ain’t that the truth! Two whole months with no treatment break! UGH! Radiation February 25th – March 2nd Chemo February 29 – March 17th (it ended a few days early due to low cell count.) Shots and Infusion March 24th (technically my week off chemo) Radiation starts again Monday March 28th Chemo April 4th –…

Back in December I started feeling a low back pain that I couldn’t quite determine if it was bone pain or simply a pulled muscle. I thought I’d just wait until my PET/CT end of December to see if anything was going on. Well, something was amiss on my scan – a portion of my…

It has officially been 2 weeks since I started Ibrance, my oral targeted therapy and my Zoladex and Faslodex shots. I would have to say the biggest side effects I have been experiencing are fatigue, no energy, nausea and bleeding gums. I’ve been sleeping a lot again. I recently had a mouth sore but that didn’t…

I have officially been off chemo for 4 1/2 weeks. It has been a struggle deciding what to do next givin my extreme mental attitude toward ovary suppression or removal. I believe stopping my ovaries or removing them (oopherectomy) will not stop the cancer from spreading and I’m partial to keeping my organs that having…

Back in August I had a severe staph infection in my left breast. While on Zyvox, the antibiotic, I had worse side effects than the damn chemo. I couldn’t wait to be done with the ABX and start chemo again! One of the SE’s I noticed was my left thumb was swollen and sore. I…

On December 21st I had my regularly scheduled PET/CT and unfortunately Abraxane has stopped working. I have progression again. I’m quite sad about this news. Once again neither The Blood Guy nor I were prepared to see this happening and again I am devastated. I have done so well on Abraxane and truly a great…

With all the excite during summer I missed a couple things…. I was overwhelmed with being sick so much and focusing on the anitibiotics and treatment I guess I just forgot. In August, I went to Las Vegas for an American Cancer Society Strides Against Breast Cancer meeting. My very good friend Barbara went with…

My last PET/CT was a good one. NO NEW LESIONS PRESENT! My lesions in my T-2, T-10 and T-6 have resolved (means scarred over). The lesions riddles throughout my pelvis are unchanged and the 2 big lesions in each hip socket do not glow as brightly. So Abraxane is working!! In September, I sat on…